The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-08
GLEANIN0S FROM the ROCKIES.
Events Transpiring In Our Sister States
and Territories.

tVeuss 1FNUSpSElnB In Our SlSteF SsAtFS
and Territories.
Sand bagging and all sorts OF violent
ou.rages are frequent at Ell Paso On the
border.
The Colorado Ore Sampling works,
Denver were burned on the night Of the
and. Loss, $4,000.
The First National Bank Of Cheyenne
attachment against the Swan Brothers
has been dismissed.
Chalis Messenger: The skylark is work.
ing twenty-five men. The first class ore
is being shipped to Omaha.
1t is claimed that q greater area Of Ari.
zona desert will be reclaimed this year
than In any year in the history Of the Ter.
ritory.
!: !. w. I-a,noreaux Of the Albion Times !
has called meeting Of the Idaho editors At
Shoshone On August 10th, to form press
association.
A passenger has brought suit against
the Northern Pacific At Portland for charg.
Ing in excess Of the maximum rate Of fare
fixed by the law Of Oregon.
All hope OF rescuing alive the i'm.
prisoned miners Of the Comstock has been
abandoned, but work to recover their bod.
les is prosecuted vigorously.
Capt. lsaac Cooper. being enraged at
the stage company, has started free line
between Glenwood and Aspen, Colo, and
Is carrying travellers in swar,ns.
At a depth Of 1873 feet. James II. Cald.
vel, found at Florence, Colo, a good flow
Of both gas and oil, He Is digging Gle.
tern thirty feet in diameter and twelve feet
deep to hold the oil.
IAuguest Anderson secured verdict Of
$4,000 damages in Portland for the loss
Of his eyesigh. in an explosion in the Cas-.
cade Tunnel. The suit was against the
Northern Pacific Railroad.
Lou Robertson, formerly clerk Of the
court at Rathdrum, was shot and killed al
Wardner, Idaho, by some person unknown
| nc was III u VOOUl Will "OttA" ouO NlC
shot was fired from the outside.
An appalling case Of destitution ane
poverty has been disclosed in Cheyenne
A drunken mother and four small chill
drcn were found in little hovel, in q stat
OF starvation and filth indescribable.
Articles Of incorporation Of the Easter,
+ Wyoming Railroad Company have beer
, filed in Laramie county, with the avowe'
e purpose Of building from an eastern con
nec,ion westward through Carbon an
a Sweetwater.
Wm. HALEY and VIM. Busby, who Ct
!. capped from the Salmon City Jail, are re
;, ported by Thos. Gilleran, who escape
. with them, 10 have been drowned in Il,
r Salmon, as they were fleeing in boa
!. which capsized.
). Boise Statesman: The nineteen year ol
g son OF David Murray Of Emmetsville ha
# been missing about a week. On the aSt
, he was found dead ten miles from En-
metsville in the sage brush. 1t is sur
posed that his horse threw him. lie wa
,. herding cattle.
At Prcsideo barracks, near San Francis
CO. the 9Th inst, Private Thomas N. Bat,
man, of Troop A, md L. S. cavalry, sh.
and killed Firs, Seargeant Samuel M.Sopi
cr, Of the same troop The cause was
ID reprimand by Sopher to Bateman fo
being drunk. Sopher was in Montana fi'
wears with the End cavalry.
The hop crop OF Stuck, Puyallup an
White river valleys, w. T., will fall sho
one e.third this fall on account OF cool night
= Some yards will not have more than ha
. the average crop In the Stuck river va
icvs farmers are also complaining about II
Is shortness of their hay crop on account I
v the river freshcts weeks ago.
% The Cassia county Times says it is n
nored that a number Of capitalists ha>
D. formed a syndicate to take water fro'
'r Snake river near American Falls, to tn
s. Goose Creek valley. 1t is but a Que
ton Of time when the cnterpri'
IT will become a reality. Millions Of cal
in ital are now lying idle waiting ft
IT investments OF that kind, and the none
will not be wanting when men Of ente
=, prise once take hold oft
:. An attempt was made BY several priso'
-. ers to escape from the state prison at Fo
som, California. The convicts were ell
ploved outside OF the walls, and one
rt them making break for liberty was SUI
\ denly Joined BY four others. The guar'